| Five ‘don’ts’ when attending business networking events
Networking mixers can be a fabulous way to efficiently and effectively develop relationships and grow your business.
However, knowing what to do is essential. There are a number of articles out there with ideas on what to do. Knowing what not to do can be, and often is, even more important.
1. Don�t sell. First of all, more than 90 percent of the people in this world do not like to be sold to, and when they are in public, they like it even less.
The biggest reasons I come across as to why people don�t like networking mixers or events is that a) they are worried they are going to be accosted and sold to or b) they walk in wanting to sell and don�t have success.
Obviously, these two things are diametrically opposed to one another, so both parties will be unsatisfied.
Posters as art
It happens only three times a year in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. "And it's the only time collectors have the opportunity to see so many posters of different ages and different subject matter at one time," says David Pollack, one of the owners and producers of the International Vintage Poster Fair, which takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Chicago Cultural Center. .
Choosing careers
The Connellsville Area School District wants its graduates prepared for the work force. Students, whether in academic or in vocational tracks, will research a career and focus in depth on it, culminating in a senior project dealing with the career chosen. Curriculum coordinator Philip Savini developed the program with the district's secondary counselors. "Connellsville is unique in the county, if not in the region, for having this program," he said. The Career Portfolio portion of the program is funded by the Fayette-Westmoreland Investment Board. Students begin in ninth grade. "They select the career of their interest. They can make another selection, but do have to focus in-depth on the career they have selected," Savini said. "They learn what type of post-secondary learning they need to get into that career.
Grown-up puzzles frustrate
The first thing you notice about Gail Hastings' pieces at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is how much they look like the wooden puzzles that kept you busy, and slightly frustrated, as a kid.
Of course, they still do as an adult and Hastings has blown them, and the frustration, up into larger-than-life experiences.
By frustration I mean the inability to find conclusive solutions or, to put it another way, the constant feeling of being trapped within a cyclical infinity of possibilities.
Like all good conceptual work, Hastings creates lots of self-cancelling pathways in her pieces which leave large gaps in meaning.
As such you, as the viewer, have lots of fun trying to put the pieces together but with no real chance of ever settling on a solution.
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